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| I always liked the children's story (URL) Stone Soup> since hearing it read on the Captain Kangaroo television show many years ago. This vignette illustrates one scene from the story. (URL) (17 years ago, 30-Dec-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
| | | | | Grelnix
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| New Mecha: Grelnix ==== Completed X-mas Day 2007. (URL) 6 weeks to construct. 33 inches tall. Nearly 10 pounds. 6 Technic Turntables. 2 Pilots - Head / Chest. Ball joints for ankle splay. Jet Pack - 9v Battery Box. Quad ball joint setup / neck. (...) (17 years ago, 28-Dec-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !
| | | | | New LDraw part author tool: PlanarCheck
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| (2 URLs) PlanarCheck> helps you verify that all quads of a part file are planar enough to fulfill LDraw.org Parts Tracker requirements. While a triangle is always flat, a quad may be warped. This can yield weird rendering results, as exemplified by (...) (17 years ago, 27-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | Bovinius Minimus
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| Ok, so I guess I'm in a strange old world naming mood this holiday season. Inspired by Siggurd's mini-quad (URL) decided to make a small octopod using small pistons. It uses two small pistons per switch, chained together as a 3 segment inchworm. (...) (17 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc)
| | | | | Octomedius
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| I was inspired by Philo's pneumatic wheel and his ratio of 1 switch per piston. (URL) right, in that when I did my Inchworms they all used two switches per piston, and he cut it to one. I wondered how short I could make one of my inchworms and still (...) (17 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc)
| | | | | Inchworm 4
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| I was playing with pneumatic piston and switch linkages trying to improve on the geometries I've developed in the past. This lead to inchworm 4. (URL) 4 has two waves travel down its body like inchworm 3 (URL) big difference is the design of an (...) (17 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc)
| | | | | Inchworm 3
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| Real life has finally slowed down enough to have time to build. After showing off my robots at an elementary school in another town for three days, I got a huge burst of energy. My first creation was a new kind of pneumatic inchworm. It uses the (...) (17 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc)
| | | | | Care Bear Sculpture
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| When my younger daughter was growing up she enjoyed playing with, and collecting Care Bears. One of her favorites was Love-a-Lot Bear. Now that she has grown up, the bears have been put away for several years. I wanted to make her a LEGO Christmas (...) (17 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !
| | | | | Rebel Advance Lookout
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| The rebels established a secret launch base in the Massassi temple of the Yavin system. Advance lookout posts surrounded the perimeter keeping track of ships that come and go manned by rebel troopers around the clock. (URL) AC (17 years ago, 24-Dec-07, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
| | | | | Grunts - Episode 4.
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| (URL) S. (17 years ago, 24-Dec-07, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Submission for MOTM/SOTM/POTM closes in a week
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| Hi folks, we still seek some entries for the MOTM/POTM contest: (URL) currently have 4 entries for the MOTM, 3 for the POTM and many for the SOTM. As you might know we will run these contests only if there are a minimum of five entries. Please (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Skyscraper wip
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| ok here is my skyscraper I am working on. I got the ground floor finished tonight and wanted to show it off a little. part of this project is the road and landscape around it. so anyway. (URL) after moderation: (URL) plmkwyt, Spencer (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
| | | | | Rutland Gondola
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| I'm slowly adding to my collection of vintage Rutland locos and cars. The latest is a Rutland gondola, based on an old photo found (URL), and an n-scale version pictured (URL) here>. (2 URLs) NELUG Gallery> The sides of the gondola are built from (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.org.us.nelug, FTX) !!
| | | | | Grunts - Episode 3.
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| The final format change? (URL) S. (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Displaying my set collections at LEGO-palooza
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| Since I was a kid collecting lego, I've had a fantasy of setting up all my sets (at that time, 70's town) in an integrated display- I mean, how cool would that be?!? I have never had the luxury of room to do that at home, but the NCLUG LEGO-palooza (...) (17 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !
| | | | | Wedding Card Vignettes
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| When my wife & I got married in 2006, one of our friends, who was aware of my AFOLness, gave us a fantastic, homemade card featuring two vignettes related to our hobbies. My wife loves to cook (URL) and I was a volunteer firefighter (URL) The cover (...) (17 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.vignette, FTX) !
| | | | | Grunts - Episode 2.
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| I'm still feeling my way with this, but I've taken on board a lot of the comments so far from various sources. Unless this is still too big, this is probably the format I'll adopt: (URL) S. (17 years ago, 17-Dec-07, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Latest Mechs
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| Hello all, Here are my latest projects. This is the rebuild of the crusher (URL) is the Brute, a construction mech. (URL) is the Brute modified for combat. (URL) here is the inspiration for the brute. This is from Mechwarrior Dark Age (URL) (17 years ago, 17-Dec-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc)
| | | | | Grunts - a LEGO Comic Strip
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| I dunno how well this will go down, this is an experiment - if it works and if it's funny, there will be more, if not, then it's quite simple - I will destroy the planet. Grunts - Episode 1! (URL) S. (17 years ago, 17-Dec-07, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Square with fountain - WIP
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| This will be the "centerpiece" of my Café Corner layout. I will add more stuff, like benches, minifigs, etc. so it will not be as deserted as it is now. (2 URLs) (17 years ago, 16-Dec-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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